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Aryzta Food Solutions is the Number 1 frozen bakery supplier in Europe with 23 bakeries in 10 countries. Originally founded as Delice de France by Philippe Signolet in 1989 having been acquired by IAWS in 1999 it then merged with Swiss Company Heistand in 2008 becoming Aryzta Food Solutions in 2014. Aryzta is a derivation of the word “Arista”, which means the pinnacle or apex of a single ear of wheat.

At ARYZTA Food Solutions we’re united by a passion for food and the desire to create food to go solutions that help retail businesses serve memorable taste experiences.

Our aim is to meet the needs of shoppers through a range of food to go solutions tailored for the retail market and also through product ranges that we continuously review and refresh to suit the needs of the retail shopper of today either for immediate consumption or as part of a take home shop. We are living in a period of great change which includes the shopping habits of our nation. Shoppers are looking for convenience, great tasting products and a quality assurance with food to go playing an ever increasingly important role within todays retail and convenience stores with our concepts and products meeting the needs for all the key food to go categories of In Store Bakery, Hot Food to Go and Coffee.

British American Tobacco’s portfolio holds over 200 brands, sold in 180 markets. Recognisable names include Kent, Dunhill, Lucky Strike and Pall Mall.

The four building blocks of British American Tobacco’s strategy are Growth, Productivity, Developing a Winning Organisation, and Responsibility. They believe each area to be interdependent and essential for delivering profit growth and long term business sustainability.

Here at the Burtons Biscuit Company, we are very proud to be the purveyors of some of the nation’s favourite biscuits.

With brands including Maryland, Cadbury Fingers, Jammie Dodgers, Wagon Wheels and Fish n’ Chips, we have been baking biscuits for more than 75 years in three main manufacturing facilities across the UK in Llantarnam, Edinburgh and Blackpool. Our head office is based in St. Albans.

We’re the only major biscuit manufacturer in the UK to focus solely on biscuits and this dedication has helped us deliver on our vision of ‘Making Every Day More of a Treat.’

Carlsberg was founded in 1847 by J. C. Jacobsen after the name of his son Carl. The main beers are Carlsberg, Carlsberg Export and Carlsberg special brew.

Carlsberg was proud to be the Official Beer of UEFA EURO 2012™, The England Team and a founding partner for Wembley Stadium and sponsor a number of Clubs around the country from Premiership teams right through to League 2.

Coca Cola Great Britain (CCGB) is responsible for marketing 21 brands (over 100 products) to consumers in Great Britain, developing new brands, extending existing brands and protecting Coca Cola trademarks in Great Britain. CCGB employs around 130 people at its headquarters in west London.

Here in Great Britain we manufacture and market a wide range of drinks. Our carbonated soft drinks include well-known brands such as Coca Cola, Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Sprite and Fanta, as well as Oasis still fruit drinks, isotonic sports drink Powerade and Abbey Well water. We also own the Schweppes product range, Relentless energy drinks and the Glaceau Vitamin Water range.

Coca Cola Enterprises also manufactures and distributes some products for other brand owners. These include Capri-Sun, Monster energy drinks and the Appletiser, Peartiser and Fruitiser range of sparkling fruit juices.

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks business with an outstanding collection of beverage alcohol brands across spirits, beer and wine. These brands include Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, J&B, Windsor, Buchanan’s and Bushmills whiskies, Smirnoff, Ciroc and Ketel One Vodkas, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Jose Cuervo, Tanqueray and Guinness.

At Ginsters, we make far more than just great pasties. We have an extensive range of convenient, fresh foods to keep everyone’s taste buds tingling. In fact, Ginsters has pretty much something for all the family.

Whether you fancy our Pasties, Sandwiches or Pies, all our products are properly filled, using quality British ingredients and bursting with Cornish flavour. Everything we make has a classic Ginsters signature: properly filled to the brim, with the great taste of Cornwall in every delicious bite.

HEINEKEN is the UK's leading pub, cider and beer company and the name behind iconic brands such as Strongbow, Bulmers, Foster's, Kronenbourg 1664, Desperados, and of course Heineken® along with a full range of craft and speciality brands.

Headquartered in Edinburgh, HEINEKEN employs around 2,000 colleagues, spread across sites in London, Hereford, Ledbury, Manchester, Tadcaster and Edinburgh as well as out in the field.

HEINEKEN is also a passionate supporter of the Great British Pub. Since 2012, HEINEKEN has invested more than £100m in its Star Pubs & Bars pub estate to broaden their appeal for consumers. In 2017, HEINEKEN acquired around 1,900 more pubs, bringing the total estate to around 3,000 pubs.

HEINEKEN was established in 1864 when Gerard Adriaan Heineken bought the Haystack brewery in Amsterdam and has since gone on to become the world’s most international brewer. Globally HEINEKEN owns, markets and sells over 250 brands.

HEINEKEN’s Star Retailer programme offer Category advice to Independent Retailers in the Convenience sector on how to maximise profits from cider and beer looking at range and merchandising.

Please click on the “got to website” button to visit the Star Retailer website – or enter www.starretailer.co.uk into your browser.

More information about the HEINEKEN business and our brands can be found at www.heineken.co.uk

Imperial Tobacco is a leading international tobacco company with a balanced market footprint and a unique portfolio of brands and products across all tobacco categories.

Our comprehensive and versatile portfolio of brands and products gives us strong representation in all tobacco products and across all price segments. Our brands include, Davidoff, Gauloises Blondes, West and JPS.

Kepak Group has grown to become one of Europe’s leading food processing companies. Kepak pride themselves on dedication to innovation, brand management, consumer focus and resolute devotion to food safety.

The Kepak group is divided into three key strategic business units; Kepak Meat Division (KMD), Kepak Convenience Foods (KCF) and Agra Trading.

Possibly the most recognisable brand names under Kepak Group are in the KCF sector, featuring Rustler’s; Big Al’s; Speedy Snacks and Zugo’s Deli Cafe.

With the huge pressure placed upon the food industry regarding the health and wellbeing of its consumers, Kepak Group are launching a drive to get rid of the misconceptions placed upon Rustler’s products. This is done through their ‘Fit as a Butcher’s Daughter’ ad campaign, strategically aimed at their target group of 16-24 year old males, to emphasise the quality of Rustler’s products.

KP is home to some of the most iconic British snack brands, and also produce all kinds of delicious snacks for the UK’s retailers.

KP is also part of the European Intersnack Group, which with nearly 50 years’ combined experience in savoury snacks is now Europe’s No 2 snack producer, supplying more than 30 countries. Some of KP Snacks’ brands include McCoy’s, Hula Hoops, KP, Pom-Bear, Skips and Space Raiders.

Lucozade Ribena Suntory is a brand new company that incorporates two of the UK’s biggest soft drinks brands – Lucozadeand Ribena.

Based out of Stockley Park in West London, the formation of the company follows the acquisition of both brands by Japanese drinks giant Suntory in 2014.

Both Lucozade and Ribena are well-established brands in the UK, and have been enjoyed by millions ever since they surfaced on the high street during the 1930s.

Molson Coors is dedicated to innovation, perhaps best demonstrated by their development of the first recyclable aluminium beer can in 1959 which not only reduced waste, but they made it available to the rest of the beverage world.

Molson Coors have over 65 brands under their belt and some of the most well known include Coors Light, Carling, blue Moon, Grolsch, Cobra, Molson M, Staropramen and many more.

Müller Milk & Ingredients aims to be the biggest and best fresh milk and ingredients business with a network of dairies and depots servicing customers throughout the country, producing skimmed, semi-skimmed, whole, flavoured milk and brands including FRijj. It also has the capacity to produce salted, unsalted and lactic butter each year for both the domestic and international markets.

The National Convenience Show is the biggest event for the convenience-retailing sector, providing a single platform for the whole market to come together - suppliers, wholesalers and retailers. The three-day event (16-18 April 2018 at the NEC Birmingham), has established itself as the focal point for the convenience retail industry, providing an unmissable opportunity for thousands of retailers to meet with new and unique suppliers as well as big brand names. This single platform is developed to allow the market to build relationships, share ideas, see new products and analyse the trends in the industry for the year ahead.

Whether you’re eyeing markets in the next town or across continents, we understand the importance of knowing what consumers watch and buy.  That’s our passion and the very heart of our business.

We study consumers in 47 European markets, and across more than 100 countries  around the world, to give you the most complete view of buying trends and media habits.  And we’re constantly evolving, not only in terms of where we measure, or who we measure, but in how our insights can help you drive profitable growth.

Whether your business is a multinational enterprise or a single storefront, we believe innovation is the key to success, in both what you create and how you market your products and ideas.  That’s why we continue to develop better solutions to help you meet the needs of today’s consumers, and find out where they’re headed next.

So let’s put our heads together. We’ll bring our insight to your business and help you grow. 

Paypoint is one of the UK’s leading premier branded retail networks for the convenient local payment of household bills
and mobile top-ups, with operations in Romania and Ireland.

If you’re a retailer looking for ways to generate more footfall and increase turnover, PayPoint’s added-value customer service products and payment technologies really fit the bill. As well as counter-top payment terminals, PayPoint also provides turnkey technical solutions for mobile phone top-ups through all major EPOS systems – and now offers self-fill LINK ATMs in the UK.

Philip Morris International is the leading international tobacco company with products sold in approximately 180 countries. Top brands include Marlboro, L&M, and Benson & Hedges.

Philip Morris International (PMI) supports charitable giving programs that improve living conditions in the places their employees reside and work, as well as in the farming communities where they source their tobacco.

Premier Foods is a Great British food company with a passion for creating the taste Great British people love, with food that is made in Britain.

Hovis bread, Ambrosia desserts, Bachelors convenient meals, Ah!Bisto gravy, Mr Kipling cakes, Lloyd Grossman sauces, Hartley’s jams, and Sharwood’s Asian foods are just some of the products making their way into the Great British consumers’ households.

In 1987, Red Bull not only launched a completely new product, it created a whole new product category – Energy Drinks. From day one, Red Bull has been giving wings to people and ideas, setting many milestones in sports and culture. Red Bull Energy Drink is appreciated worldwide by top athletes, students, and in highly demanding professions as well as during long drives. Today Red Bull is available in more than 166 countries and sells over 5 billion cans per year worldwide.

Every day, around the world, people reach for Unilever products. Our brands are trusted everywhere and, by listening to the people who buy them, we’ve grown into one of the world’s most successful consumer goods companies. In fact, 150 million times a day, someone somewhere chooses a Unilever product.

16 of our 40 brands are market leaders including Persil, Dove, Magnum, Flora, Marmite, Lynx – and you can find our products in the kitchens, fridges, freezers and bathrooms in nine out of ten UK homes.

URBAN eat is the UK’s No. 1 sandwich brand. We create a handcrafted range of sandwiches, salads, prepared fruits, hot eats and snacks to free consumers from lunch fatigue. We recognise that Food To Go is a major footfall driver for the convenience channel and provide creative, convenient and edgy food, with something for every type of retailer and consumer.

Weetabix Food Company is the second largest branded manufacturer of cereals and cereal bars in the United Kingdom. Based in Northamptonshire, UK, its family of brands includes Weetabix, Alpen, Ready brek, Weetos, Oatibix, Alpen cereal Bars, Alpen Porridge and Weetabix on the go breakfast drinks.  The Weetabix brand has been manufactured and sold in the UK since 1932; today it is the UK’s number one selling, most trusted and most recommended cereal and is one of Britain’s most iconic brands.